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After shootings, states rethink mental health cuts
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, driven by the recession's toll on revenue and, in some cases, a new zeal to shrink government. But that trend may be heading for a U-...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Mary Fallin, Health and Safety at Work, Mental Health
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Jindal: Liking people is key to expanding GOP tent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the Republican Party needs to go back to basics to attract the broad coalition of voters credited with putting President Barack Obama back in the White House. Kindergarten basics. "If we want...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Government, Executive Branch, John McCain, Social Issues
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Pence travels for governor training, networking
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Incoming Gov. Mike Pence is heading west this week to get his bearings as he shifts from the legislative branch to the executive. Pence's transition team announced Tuesday he would travel to a meeting of the Republican Governors...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Politics
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$1m donation to Pence campaign brings scrutiny
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The largest single donation to an Indiana gubernatorial candidate in nearly a decade is raising questions about a loophole between federal and state election laws that critics say makes it impossible to know who supplied the...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Companies and Corporations, Justice System, Democratic Governors Association
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GOP moves to plug technology gap with Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embarrassed by how the last presidential election exposed their yesteryear technology, Republicans are turning to a younger generation of tech-savvy social media experts and software designers to improve communications with voters,...
Tags: Primaries, Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Barack Obama, eHarmony
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GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Mary Fallin, Medicaid, Washington, DC
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Government, Executive Branch, John McCain, Kumar P Barve
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: State university faculty frustrated on contract talks.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're running a little late this morning, so we'll just dive right into a quick round- up of the day's political headlines. Think of this of the ADHD version of Capitol Ideas, which already has...... -
El futuro habla espanol (The future speaks Spanish)
WASHINGTON -- The new year has begun with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into advice my father gave me a long time ago: "Learn Spanish. You will...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Family, Social Issues, Mitt Romney
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GOP governors walk balance beam on health law
ATLANTA (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Nikki Haley
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Reports: Governor McDonnell's security travel costs $160,000
Costs for travel and lodging through October for Gov. Bob McDonnell's State Police security detail totaled slightly more than $105,000. That's according to accounts first reported Monday by the Virginian-Pilot and the Richmond Times-Dispatch from open...
Tags: Government, Elections, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Bob McDonnell
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Romney inadvertently shows why he lost
Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a conference call...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Mitt Romney, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden
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